An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit near the Salton Sea around 10:55 a.m. 24 miles north northwest of El Centro in Southern California. Shaking was felt across Southern California and big centers like in Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as in bordering mexican cities.
As shown in the following map, the main earthquake was followed by a series of hundreds of aftershocks.
The M5.3 earthquake hit near Calipatria, Imperial County, California, USA at a very shallow depth of 3.6 miles beneath the epicenter.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should have been widely felt by almost everyone in the area of the epicenter. USGS did you feel it map, shows that the earthquakes has been felt from in Los Angeles, San Diego and even in Phoenix, Arizona…
The Salton Buttes on the south shore of the Salton Sea are on the north margin of the Brawley Seismic Zone and are linked to volcanic and geothermal activity within the zone. This is exactly where the earthquake swarm is rattling right now!
The earthquake seems to have hit right on the Brawley Seismic Zone, an extensional tectonic zone that connects the southern terminus of the San Andreas Fault with the Imperial Fault in Southern California…
But geologists don’t understand completely the swarm activity of the Brawley Fault Zone even though USGS scientists say such quake series are typical for this seismic region:
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